Unbowed by Billy Hedderman
9.99 AUD
34.99 (71% off)
Category: Biography
'I woke to the sight of a hospital ceiling. For that first blissful second, I forgot that I was paralysed.' On 31 December 2014 Billy Hedderman suffered a catastrophic injury to his spinal cord while body-boarding on the Sunshine Coast, paralysing him almost completely from the neck down. When asked if ...Show more
When the Bough Breaks by Joanne W. Jones
9.99 AUD
29.95 (66% off)
Category: Biography
"The only way you'll ever have a baby is through IVF or adoption." Until the moment she first heard those words, Joanne Jones had taken for granted that she would become a mother with a family of her own. Now she would spend the next decade doing everything within her power to conceive or adopt. But it ...Show more
Night by Elie Wiesel
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity - the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, ...Show more
Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise by Niki Savva
35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie Oakes Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Austra ...Show more
Speaking In Tongues by Tom Tilley
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When you no longer believe in eternity, every moment counts -- A memoir of breaking free and reinvention From the outside, Tom Tilley's childhood seemed ordinary. The first son of a pastor, he grew up in a beautiful country town where life revolved around football, his loving family and their Pentecosta ...Show more
Teacher, Teacher: Stories of inspirational educators by DALEY, MEGAN
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
An anthology about the power of teachers and their capacity to shape lives, edited by award-winning teacher-librarian Megan Daley of Children's Book Daily and the Your Kid's Next Read podcast. Featuring contributions from Jessie Tu,Tony Birch,Rick Morton,Jacqueline Harvey + many more. The power of an ...Show more
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood by Bill Bryson
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Bryson
"Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America. It was a happy time, when almost everything w ...Show more
Australia's Sweetheart: The Life and Times of Mary Maguire, Our Forgotten Hollywood Star by Michael Adams
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
Category: Biography
This is the fascinating story of Mary Maguire, a 1930s Australian ingenue who sailed for Hollywood and a fabulous life, only to have her career cut short by scandal and tragedy. Packed with celebrity, history and gossip, AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART is perfect for readers of SHEILA and THE RIVIERA SET. Mary M ...Show more
Lost in Motherhood: The Memoir of a Woman who Gained a Baby and Lost Her Sh*t by TIMOTHY GRACE
9.99 AUD
19.99 (50% off)
Category: Biography
Previously published as Mum Face. Best described as The Wrong Knickers for mums, in this wry, resonant and darkly funny memoir, journalist Grace Timothy explores motherhood as an issue of identity.What begins as shock and then denial of how your life will change has to become acceptance when you're too ...Show more
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: The New York Times bestseller by Lauren Hough
32.99 AUD
36.99 (10% off)
Category: Biography
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A memoir in essays about so many things--growing up in an abusive cult, coming of age as a lesbian in the military, forced out by homophobia, living on the margins as a working class woman and what it's like to grow into the person you are meant to be. Hough's writing will ...Show more
Kahlo (Biographic) by Sophie Collins
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biographic
Many people know that Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist, a feminist icon who lived in the famous Blue House and whose work includes The Two Fridas. What, perhaps, they don't know is that 55 of her 143 artworks are self-portraits; that her painting Roots holds the record for a Latin American a ...Show more